James Gunn Is Already Filming ‘The Suicide Squad’

About a week after revealing the official cast list for The Suicide Squad, writer/director James Gunn reveals that he is already shooting the highly-anticipated DC Comics film.

In the comments section of one of his Instagram posts, James Gunn replied to a fan asking him if production on the upcoming film was set to start this Monday. James Gunn replied back, revealing that as of the posting of his comment, he is already filming The Suicide Squad:

James Gunn signed on to write and direct The Suicide Squad sometime after Disney cut ties with him in 2018 after several inappropriate tweets from the past resurfaced. After getting kicked off of his directing duties for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, he hopped over to Warner Bros. and DC Films for this new take on The Suicide Squad. Disney later reinstated James Gunn to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which he will direct after he finishes work on this new DC Extended Universe film.

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The first Suicide Squad followed a team of supervillains who were recruited by the government for a dangerous black ops mission in exchange for reduced sentences. The ensemble cast included Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Jared Leto as The Joker. James Gunn is expected to deliver on the fresh take on the supervillain team in his upcoming movie.

DC Universe Debuts ‘Doom Patrol’ Character Posters

Along with the premiere of the first teaser for Doom Patrol, DC Universe also debuted a collection of character posters for each of the members of perhaps the strangest team of characters to be adapted in live-action form for DC Comics.

In particular, these new character posters highlight Timothy Dalton’s The Chief, Diane Guerrero’s Crazy Jane, Joivan Wade’s Cyborg, April Bowlby’s Elasti-Woman, Matt Bomer’s Negative Man and Brendan Fraser’s Robotman. These posters each follow unique designs that reflect the nature of each character and tease unique personalities amongst the group as well.

You can start the gallery of new posters by clicking “Next”.

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Doom Patrol is a reimagining of one of DC’s strangest group of outcast Super Heroes which includes: Matt Bomer as Larry Trainor/Negative Man, Brendan Fraser as Cliff Steele/Robotman, April Bowlby as Elasti-Woman, Diane Guerrero as Crazy Jane, Joivan Wade as Victor Stone/Cyborg and Timothy Dalton as Dr. Niles Caulder/The Chief.

Here is the synopsis for the show:

“Doom Patrol will find the reluctant heroes in a place they never expected to be, called to action by Cyborg, who comes to them with a mission hard to refuse, but with a warning that is hard to ignore: their lives will never, ever be the same.”

Doom Patrol will premiere on February 15, 2019 exclusively on DC Universe.